The Emmanuel Library

Emmanuel’s Library is a very carefully selected theological library. It includes a collection of more than 157,000 theological works, including a rare books collection with a 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle,  the New Testament Seminar Library Collection, and the Restoration Movement Archives Research Center.

The Library was originally designed to hold 100,000 volumes, a mark that was surpassed in 1996. A recently completed expansion to the previously unfinished third-floor of the B.D. Phillips Memorial Building added space for an additional 60,000 volumes.

Emmanuel School of Religion’s Library has more than 157,000 items. The library annually adds more than 3,000 items to its collections and receives more than 700 periodicals, newsletters and newspapers. The Beauford H. Bryant New Testament Seminar Collection has more than 11,900 items focused on the New Testament and its backgrounds. The Media Center receives curricular materials from various publishers and also collects significant non-book media for use in the church’s educational programs. The School’s Restoration Movement Archives Collection numbers more than 10,000 items and has 242 linear feet of files about the Stone-Campbell Movement.

Access the Library’s online catalog